Annual report: 1956-57

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

ANNUAL REPORT

NUMBER 7

1956-57

100 QUEEN’S PARK, TORONTO 5, ONTARIO

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Excerpt from the President’s Report

Two years ago I prophesied in my Annual Report that a new and exciting
chapter would be writen in the splendid record of the Museum. The report of the
Director, Mr. T. A. Heinrich, covering the activities of the past two years, proves
that forecast to be correct. Extraordinary progress has been made in every phase
of the work of the Museum, and Mr. Heinrich and his staff must indeed be con¬
gratulated on their achievements.

Scientific expeditions in Canada have been part of the Museum’s work for
many years. These have continued, and, in addition, the Museum has undertaken
overseas expeditions which have shed light on the nature and culture of other
lands. Fine acquisitions have been made to many of the collections, and improve¬
ments in the techniques of display have been noteworthy; an accelerated pro¬
gramme of special exhibitions has attracted wide public interest ; increased activity
on the part of the Museum’s Division of Education is developing a larger group
of youthful Museum “fans,” both in Toronto and in remote parts of Ontario; and
the publication of several scholarly works has brought prestige to the Museum
and, indeed, to the whole University.

Much academic research does not lend itself to visual demonstration. The
work that goes on year after year at the University of Toronto to establish cures
for diseases, to discover physical and chemical laws, to elucidate great literature,
to determine historical questions, to understand individual and social behaviour,
etc., etc., must depend for the most part upon the university classroom and the
scholarly journal for its description. But much research can be illustrated, by the
intelligent and imaginative displaying of flora and fauna and artifacts. In this
respect, the Museum is like a great show window, through which one may observe
a workshop of painstaking scholarship and research in the arts and sciences.

Sidney Smith

Report of the Director

The second year of the Royal Ontario Museum’s operations under the re¬
organization plan, which created a unified institution out of the three formerly sepa¬
rate museums and the division of education, began to give real shape to the plans and
hopes of the Board and the staff, the former under the chairmanship of Mr. Harold
Turner and the latter under the direction of Mr. Theodore Allen Heinrich.

As with any structure undergoing remodelling, not all the changes and improve¬
ments are immediately apparent to the public eye. A major budgetary overhaul, for
example, now only at the end of the first stage of an escalator scheme, will prove to
be of far-reaching consequence: it is allowing some addition to the staff who have
been heavily overworked, and is giving staff members increased mobility; it makes

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possible a marked enlargement of museum services, notably in the areas of temporary
exhibitions, publications and other special activities; it is helping towards the
reinstallation of overcrowded or outdated galleries; it is facilitating the purchase of
necessary equipment for research and conservation; it has allowed a beginning to be
made towards elimination of overlapping or ill-defined duties; it provides the means
to strengthen departmental libraries; and it has made a start, through a special grant
of $100,000 from the Province, towards putting the Royal Ontario Museum in a
competitive position with endowed institutions for the acquisition of objects to im¬
prove its collections.

With the aid of corporate grants the Museum has been able for the first time in
Canadian history to undertake overseas expeditions. In 1956 the Museum became a
partner in the excavations of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem at the
ancient site of Jericho, where discoveries of unusual significance were made. During
this period Dr. A. D. Tushingham and Miss Winifred Needier were also able to visit
other sites in the Near East and Egypt. The syndicated coverage of this expedition
by the Globe and Mail, which underwrote the principal expenses and sent out an
excellent reporter, Mr. David Spurgeon, gave the general public both a vivid account
of the operations and a new appreciation of the Museum’s capabilities. In addition
Dr. Tushingham’s intimate newsletters for the Museum’s members and staff gave
them a real sense of participation. In 1957, with the aid of Carling’s Ltd., Dr. F. A.
Urquhart led a sizable Museum expedition to the tropical rain forests of Trinidad
to collect specimens for the projected Reptile Gallery, while Mr. Kidd made pre¬
liminary investigations in British Honduras for a projected pre-Columbian excavation
in that country. At the same time all divisions were continuing field work in Canada.
In one area at least, at the Serpent Mound site on Rice Lake, a long-term project for
which local support was raised in Peterborough was successfully undertaken. Eight
members of the staff have attended conferences or courses in Europe, three attended
a congress in Mexico, and the Museum has been well represented at scientific and
professional meetings in the United States and Canada. The Director, in addition
to representing the Museum at many such meetings, was Canadian delegate to the
triennial meeting of the International Council of Museums in Switzerland.

Although funds for physical expansion of the badly overcrowded main building
are not yet in sight, considerable study of needs has been made and tentative plans
discussed. These are now ready for consultation with the advisory architect recently
appointed by the Board of Governors with a view to determining probable costs. In
the meantime work is well forward on the new wing for the Canadiana Gallery and
on reinstallations of certain galleries and storage areas in the main building. The
second stage of the complete reinstallation of the Geology galleries on a new system
was carried through under the direction of Dr. Walter Tovell by the designer, Mr.
John Hillen. This section was opened with suitable ceremonies by the Minister of
Mines for Ontario, the Honourable Philip Kelly, on February 15, 1957, and the
dramatic results of a labour consuming several years have attracted worldwide atten¬
tion. Over half the cost was borne by the J. P. Bickell Foundation. The Division of
Zoology and Palaeontology has completed a new installation devoted to fossil fishes.
The Division of Art and Archaeology has opened a new Peruvian Gallery, has set
up a new temporary exhibition area which has proved to be satisfactorily flexible, is
well forward with the construction of a lacquer court and a new Athenian Gallery,
has rearranged the East Indian and parts of the Japanese and Eskimo collections,
and has planned many other improvements in its installations. The former waste
space of the Lower Rotunda has been transformed into an attractive and popular
gallery for photographic exhibitions, and improvements have been made in the coffee
shop, sales desk and ladies’ staff room.

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The tempo of special exhibitions has been sharply increased and strenuous efforts
are being made to raise their level of quality and interest to a high international
standard. They have induced a marked growth in attendance, have achieved wide
publicity, in some cases have made real contributions to scholarship, have brought
about a gratifying improvement in co-operation between divisions and departments,
and have given stimulus to local collectors, without whose interest no museum can
function to full effect. It is regrettable that it has seldom been possible to publish cata¬
logues which would provide a permanent record of evanescent but often important
events.

Among these exhibitions the most unusual and spectacular was devoted to the
magnificent Japanese costumes from the Nomura Collection of Tokyo, shown uni¬
quely in the Western world at Toronto under the distinguished patronage of His
Excellency the Japanese Ambassador. The range of subject interest has been very
wide. The Division of Art and Archaeology, most active in this field, has staged no
less than eighteen special shows in the two-year period in addition to six exhibitions
in the Canadiana Gallery and smaller departmental shows not featured as special
events. Among other notable special exhibitions were those devoted to Chinese Paint¬
ings, Lacquer, Bone and Ivory, European Glass, and Part II of Dr. Alexander Mac¬
Donald’s great collection of maps relating to the exploration of Canada, this section
being entitled “Over the Rockies.” In connection with a special Hungarian exhibition
at the time of the tragic revolution in that country the Museum was able to raise
$1,000 for the scholarship fund for refugee Hungarian students: this was perhaps the
only known instance when a museum deliberately set out to raise funds for other pur¬
poses than its own. The newly inaugurated photographic exhibitions likewise attracted
much interest, particularly the late Werner Bischoff’s unforgettable images of Japan,
Eliot Elisofon’s photographs of ancient Indian architecture to which were effectively
added sculptures from the Museum collections, Kurt Ammann’s “Small, Wide World”
and Bernice Kolko’s “Women of Mexico.” Colour photographs made for Reader’s
Digest covers were also popular. The Division of Geology and Mineralogy devoted
special exhibitions to Platinum Metals and Titanium before work on the new per¬
manent installations forced suspension of these activities, and the Division of Zoology
and Palaeontology likewise mounted a number of small special shows. Notable among
these was the first museum exhibition accorded the remarkable bird paintings of the
very young Victoria artist, Fenwick Lansdowne. The openings for certain of the
major exhibitions have provided opportunities for special parties at which the enter¬
tainment, decorations and a popular bar are proving excellent stimulants towards
enlarging the membership, particularly in the patronage and life categories. Counter¬
parts of these for the general public have been continued in the form of Open Nights,
some of which have drawn large crowds.

Despite chronic lack of funds important accessions were made to the permanent
collections, largely through private gifts or bequests. Special mention may be made
of a group of Chinese paintings of the Sung and Ming periods, a fifth-century Greek
funerary stele, a Florentine fifteenth-century bust of St. John in terra cotta, a K’ang
Hsi uncut state robe of imperial velvet, a group of Chinese imperial lacquers, a Chola
Dynasty life-size Mahesvari in stone, a group of Italian Renaissance furniture, and
collections of Irish and Early Canadian glass. The latter, which is unique, is the
subject of a special publication. A list of the more important accessions and their
donors is appended. These gifts, bequests and purchases have been supplemented by
an important group of antiquities deposited on long-term loan by Mr. Joseph Hirsh-
horn and by the whole of Mr. James Houston’s famous collection of contemporary
Eskimo sculpture. The indefatigable enthusiasm and generosity of Dr. Sigmund
Samuel have continued to enrich the Canadiana collections.

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The Division of Education has enjoyed ever-expanding activity and its work at
all levels in interpreting the collections to both the junior and the adult publics has
been rewarded with constantly increased attendance. The two non-seminar extension
courses of the season had to be repeated and each had to be given in larger quarters
than previously. The Saturday children’s programme was as usual over-subscribed.
After the regrettable lapse of a year in the subvention formerly granted by the City
towards the support of this popular activity, the Metropolitan Toronto budget has
now begun to contribute. The travelling teachers visited nearly two hundred schools
in remote parts of the province during the winter and the travelling cases brought
small exhibits to forty-three other distant schools. Few of these children have ever
seen a museum. The popular Sunday film programme was closely related to the
exhibition schedule of the Museum and thereby added still another dimension to the
Museum’s services to the public. It is worthy of mention and a cause for congratula¬
tion to Miss Norma Heakes and her colleagues that when a vacancy occurred in the
Division there were over sixty qualified applicants despite the longer hours and
shorter vacations. It is also most gratifying that of the thousands of school children
who have their first introduction to the Museum through class visits, considerable
numbers return independently in order to concentrate on what has particularly struck
their interest.

Numerous individual and joint research programmes are under way throughout
the Museum. Three new books are causes of special gratification to the institution:
Bishop White’s Bronze Culture of Ancient China, L. L. Snyder’s Arctic Birds of
Canada with illustrations by T. M. Shortt, and the handsome, fully illustrated cata¬
logue of the Museum’s Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, which was prepared by Mr.
Kojiro Tomita of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and most generously underwritten
in toto by Mr. Frank Caro of New York. The Museum is also very pleased that Mr.
W. M. Tovell has obtained the Doctorate of Philosophy for his thesis on “Aspects of
the Geology of the Millc River and Pakowki Formations (Southern Alberta).” Dr.
V. B. Meen has published the important results of his investigations of Chubb Crater
in Quebec and Merewether Crater in northern Labrador. Dr. Urquhart’s continuing
studies of the systematics and migrations of the Monarch butterfly have attracted
extraordinary publicity. Publication of the Bidletin of the Division of Art and Archae¬
ology has been resumed after a lapse of more than a year and the other Divisions are
continuing publications of special papers.

A new departure of considerable significance was the establishment of a central
office for Publications and Information Services, which has completed its first year
under the able supervision of Mr. Duncan Cameron. It has not been possible during
this period to undertake all the functions foreseen for the office, but it has made
great progress in at least two of them. The main problem has been to develop a co¬
ordinated programme of public relations for all divisions of the Museum, in a field
where there is little specific precedent and where much study and experimentation
are necessary. That a different kind of presentation to the public of the Museum’s
activities, needs and accomplishments was necessary was painfully obvious. Careful
examinations of the problem, experimentation at once cautious and bold, and ex¬
tended statistical studies and analyses of special aspects have all been productive of
illuminating results. A concerted effort has been made to create an impression in the
public mind of change, growth and vital activity in the Museum. As a part of this
effort the Museum has been featured during the year on 53 television and 52 radio
programmes and has had the equivalent of 24.4 news pages and 167 photographs in
the Toronto papers alone. Partial returns show that news stories emanating from the
Museum are not only being widely reprinted in Canada, but are attracting interest
in the United States and Europe as well. It is safe to say that as a result of this cam-

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paign Toronto and Ontario are aware of their Museum as never before. Sharp in¬
creases in attendance, an upsurge in gifts and the special purchase grant from the
Province can all be in no inconsiderable part attributed to this co-ordinated policy,
and it is sure to have a profound effect on a projected membership campaign.

A second project of this office, to co-ordinate and improve graphic design of
Museum printing and publishing, has made a good start. A by-product of this project
was the redesigning of Museum stationery and printed forms and the creation of a
distinguished insigne for use on all publications, posters and certain stationery. This
insigne is also travelling to far parts as a blazon on the divisional station-wagons,
where its appearance has aroused much interest and favourable comment. The office
also acted as principal liaison in making arrangements for the local celebration, in
which five institutions collaborated, of the UNESco-sponsored Museum Week.

The new Royal Ontario Museum Council, set up by the President to facilitate
solution of problems arising from joint use of the Museum by faculty and museum
staff and the somewhat differing requirements of the University and the public within
the Museum, has discussed a variety of questions including cross-appointments, a
more equitable distribution of the teaching load borne by curators, allocation of office
and research space for faculty members, rearrangement of study collections, access to
the collections by students and the disposition of the Chinese Library. The Council
is proving itself a useful institution and is welcomed by the Museum staff.

The death of Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, Director Emeritus of the old Royal
Ontario Museum of Archaeology and the founding genius of that part of the Museum,
was widely mourned. The Museum was his idea and he contributed more than fifty
years of brilliant service to creating out of nothing the great monument he has left
behind. Happily his informative and highly entertaining memoirs, I Brought the Ages
Home , were published a few months before his death and he had the pleasure of
knowing that they had been well received. The passing of Professor A. L. Parsons,
Director Emeritus of the former Royal Ontario Museum of Mineralogy, was also
deeply regretted by the staff. He had served in the Museum most of his active pro¬
fessional life and in collaboration with his colleague and predecessor in the post, the
late Professor T. L. Walker, was responsible for building up the famous mineral col¬
lections and the mineral gallery. The Division of Art and Archaeology suffered the
loss of two of its most senior and well-loved members. Mr. William Rae, who died
in his ninetieth year, had given a quarter of a century of devoted service to the
Museum after his retirement from the practice of architecture and was at his desk
until a few hours before his death. Mr. Arthur Godfrey, “Dan” to all the staff, had
been a technician in the Division for thirty years.

The Museum suffered another unanticipated and severe loss of another sort in
mid- January when thieves successfully secreted themselves in the building and during
the night managed to abstract most of the high-grade gold specimens and four cut
diamonds from the Department of Mineralogy. The diamonds were subsequently
recovered by the police, but the gold specimens, principally representing historic
strikes and therefore irreplaceable, are still missing. Steps have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such an episode. The reopened inquiry into the authenticity of the
“Beardmore Relics” might likewise have produced adverse consequences for the
Museum had it been undertaken elsewhere, but vigorous pursuit of this painful ques¬
tion by the Museum itself has underscored the integrity of the institution even in a
matter involving an all but sacrosanct national legend.

Of the many distinguished visitors from other countries, it might be thought
invidious to single out a few, but because of special contributions or assistance men¬
tion should perhaps be made of Their Excellencies M. Francis Lacoste, French Am¬
bassador to Canada and Dr. Koto Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to Canada;

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Mr. John Ward-Perkins, Director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome;
Miss Pauline Simmons of the Metropolitan Museum; Miss Alice Boney of New York;
Professor Cornelius Vermeule and Mr. Kojiro Tomita of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts; Mr. and Mrs. Shizuo Nomura of Tokyo and New York; Professor George
Heard Hamilton of Yale University; Mr. Arthur Lane of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Mr. Peter Corbett of the British Museum and Mrs. Lillian Summerfield,
Director of the Fine Arts Department of the British Council; Mr. Finn Juhl and
Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Copenhagen; Dr. Junius Bird and Dr. James Ford of
the American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Sherman Lee of the Cleveland
Museum and Mr. Henry Trubner of the Los Angeles County Museum; Dr. I. Ben-
Dor of Harvard University; Mr. Eliot Elisofon of New York and Mr. Kurt Ammann
of Berne.

Principal Accessions

DIVISION OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Gifts

Greek funerary stele, Egyptian wooden figure, Florentine terracotta bust of St. John, Egyptian
ibis, Greek bronze mirror, Chinese painting, Indian stone Mahesvari, from the Reuben
Wells Leonard Fund

Lacquers from the late Major James E. Hahn and from Mrs. Hahn
Chinese ivory screen from Mrs. F. W. Cowan

Irish glass from the late Chairman of the Museum Board, Mr. Robert Fennell

K’ang Hsi uncut state robe of imperial velvet and other gifts from Mrs. Edgar Stone

Italian Renaissance furniture from members of the Snively family

Egyptian relief from Mr. and Mrs. Leon Pomerance

A war shirt of Sitting Bull (documented) from Mr. A. A. Housely

Early Ontario furniture from Mr. Robert Laidlaw

Pictures, maps, medals, ship models, etc., from Dr. Sigmund Samuel

Acropolis model from Mr. Walter C. Laidlaw

Roman bronze figure and Egyptian relief from Dr. Elie Borowski

Jericho material from Queen’s University and from the Jordan Department of Antiquities
Chinese painting from an anonymous donor

Senufo Mask and eighteenth-century child’s costume from the Museum Board Trust Fund
Chinese export porcelain from the Winfield Foundation, N.Y.

Padded applique quilt from Mrs. Ellen Emsley

Costumes by name designers and accessories from many generous donors

Collection of Japanese brush drawings by Taki Katei from Sir Adrian Boult

Carved Regency stool from Mrs. M. F. Martin

Collection of Early Canadian glass from Dr. Lome Pierce

Japanese Zeshin lacquer from Mr. Edgar Stone

“Walls of Jericho” kinescope from the B.B.C.

Purchases

Louis XV armchair; seventeenth-century Persian portrait; Neo-Sumerian statuette; Near
Eastern bronzes and terracottas; quill-work from the Northwest Territories; casts of Parthenon
friezes and metopes; Egyptian Kantir tiles; Chinese textiles; Turkish mediaeval helmet;
Indonesian textiles; eighteenth-century console table; Chinese inlaid bronze belt hook and
k’o-ssu; Chinese painting; Tarascan and Mayan terracottas; modern porcelain and glass;
collection of books on rugs.

Purchases (from Capital Equipment Grant in Budget, 1956-7)

Station-wagon; new lighting for carpenter shop; fume cabinet for conservation shop;
furniture and curtains for main office and Head’s office; machinery for carpenter shop; photo¬
micrograph equipment.

Long-Term Loans

From Mr. Joseph Hirshhorn: Etruscan male divinity in bronze and horse bit, early dynastic
Sumerian head of a lady in limestone, fragment of a gold pectoral from Zawiyeh, two Roman
portrait heads in terracotta, first century b.c., Neo-Sumerian foundation figure in bronze, bronze
goat, perhaps Sassanian; from Mr. James Houston, collection of contemporary Eskimo sculpture.

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DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY

Presentations

Group of argentite crystals and large massive stephanite from Cobalt, Ontario, by Silver Miller
Mines Limited

Brucite from Asbestos, Quebec, by John Edwards

Calcite crystals and silver specimens from Cobalt, Ontario, by A. A. Cole
High-grade gold ore from Cadillac, Quebec, by O’Brien Gold Mines Limited
Limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite from MacKenzie Mountains, N.W.T., by D. Jacques
Thorite crystal from Cardiff Township, Ontario, and betafite crystals from Faraday Township,
Ontario, by Ontario Department of Mines
Large massive native copper from Mamainse Point, Ontario, by Coppercorp, Limited
Cuprite with native copper from Mexico, by Dr. M. H. Frohberg

Pitchblende, the first specimen taken from LaBine Point, Great Bear Lake, N.W.T., by Mrs.

G. E. Steel

Calcite geode from Borderville, Utah, by Mrs. W. H. Bush
Betafite crystal from Faraday Township, Ontario, by T. Seward

Exchange

Hurlbutite crystal from Newport, New Hampshire; gonyerite from Langban, Sweden; navajoite
from Arizona (with Harvard Mineralogical Museum)

Muscovite from Warren County, New York, and serendibite from Johnsburg, New York (with
E. Rowley)

Wairakite from Wairakei, New Zealand (with A. Steiner, Geological Survey of New Zealand)
Xanthoxenite and rockbridgeite from North Groton, New Hampshire (with United States
National Museum)

Safflorite from Quebec; braunite from South Africa; cerussite from Yukon Territories (with
Dr. D. H. Gorman)

Struvite from Victoria, Australia (with National Museum of Victoria)

Permanent Loans

Large block of obsidian (approximately 1,000 lb.) from the National Park Service, Yellowstone
National Park, U.S.A.

The Iron Creek, Alberta, siderite, the heaviest meteorite ever found in Canada, from Victoria
College for display in the Gallery of Physical Geology

Purchases

Large crystallized autunite from Daybreak Uranium Mine, Washington, U.S.A. ; large
sapphire crystal from Portuguese East Africa; and many others.

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Club Newsletter, no. 145, Jan., 1957, pp. 1-7; Audubon Outdoors, no. 74, Feb. 3, 1957,
p. 7).

- “Christmas Bird Census for 1955 — Toronto, Ont.” ( Canadian Field-Naturalist, vol. 70,

no. 2, pp. 89-90).

- “The Lower Humber Valley” ( Park News, June, 1956, p. 2).

- “On the Spring Flight of Blue and Snow Geese across Northern Ontario” ( Canadian

Field-Naturalist, vol. 69, no. 4, Oct.-Dec., 1955, pp. 135-9).

- Ontario Grouse. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum. 1956. Pp. 20. (Portion on Ruffed

Grouse reprinted in Bancroft Times, Dec. 6 and 13, 1956).

- Review, Federation of Ontario Naturalists Bulletin, no. 75, pp. 36-7.

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- Index to Journal of the American Oriental Society, vols. 21—60 (Far Eastern material),

p. 173. New Haven: American Oriental Society. 1955.

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T. A. Heinrich

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MUSEUM BOARD

Harold M. Turner, Chairman
Sigmund Samuel, ll.d., Hon. Chairman

Ronald A. Allen, b.a., m.a., ph.d.

M. B. Baker, b.a., b.sc., ll.d., f.r.s.g.
Samuel Beatty, m.a., f.r.s.c.

Henry Borden, q.c.

Mrs. Herbert Bruce

J. Harold Crang

J. Grant Glassco, o.b.e., f.c.a.

R. A. Laidlaw, ll.d.

Beverley Matthews, c.b.e., q.c.

Hon. Justice J. Keiller Mackay, D.s.o., ll.d.
J. A. McDougald

W. E. Phillips, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., ll.d.
Joseph A. Sullivan, m.d.

Mrs. O. D. Vaughan
J. R. M. Wilson

Sidney E. Smith, Q.C., M.A., ll.d.

Mrs. Helen Downie- — Executive-Secretary, Museum Board

MUSEUM OFFICERS

Theodore Allen Heinrich, b.a., m.litt., ph.d.- — Director, Royal Ontario Museum

Division of Art & Archaeology

A. D. Tushingham, b.a., b.d., ph.d.. Head

G. Brett, m.c., m.a., Curator, Modern European Department

Mrs. K. B. Brett, Curator, Textile Department

Miss H. E. Fernald, a.b., Curator, Far Eastern Department

J. W. Graham, b.a., m.a., ph.d., Curator, Greek & Roman Department
W. Kenyon, b.a., m.a., Assistant Curator, Ethnology Department

K. E. Kidd, b.a., m.a., Curator, Ethnology Department
Miss W. Needier, b.a., Curator, Near Eastern Department

F. St.G. Spendlove, dip. arch., f.m.a., f.r.s.a., Curator, Canadiana Collections

The Rt. Rev. W. C. White, b.d., d.d., f.r.s.c., Curator Emeritus, Far Eastern Department

Division of Geology & Mineralogy

V. B. Meen, b.a., m.a., ph.d., Head of Division and Curator of Mineralogy

W. M. Tovell, b.a., m.s., ph.d.. Curator of Geology

Division of Zoology & Palaeontology

F. A. Urquhart, b.a., m.a., ph.d.. Head of Division & Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
A. G. Edmund, b.a., m.a., ph.d., Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology Department
Miss M. A. Fritz, b.a., m.a., ph.d., f.r.s.c., Curator, Invertebrate Palaeontology Department
E. B. S. Logier, Associate Curator, Ichthyology & Herpetology Department

R. L. Peterson, b.a., m.a., ph.d., Curator, Mammalogy Department

W. B. Scott, b.a., m.a., ph.d., Curator, Ichthyology & Herpetology Department

L. L. Snyder, Curator, Ornithology Department

L. Sternberg, Associate Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology Department

G. B. Wiggins, b.a., m.a., Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Department

Division of Education

Miss N. E. Heakes, b.a., Supervisor

Office of Information Services

Duncan F. Cameron, Chief Information Officer

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